Discovery Education streaming

50 Ways to Integrate
When it comes to integrating Discovery Education streaming into your curriculum, the possibilities are unlimited. Start with these 50 ways to integrate digital media resources. As you use Discovery Education streaming, devise your own creative ideas.
1 MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS Embed video segments in PowerPoint presentations to make your lessons come alive. 2 SUPPORTING RESOURCE Watch full-length videos to support or provide context for a classroom lesson. 3 JOURNALING Use pre-made Writing Prompts or create your own to give students practice crafting persuasive, narrative or descriptive writing passages. 4 READING SUPPORT Use the Closed Captioning feature to assist struggling readers. Let them read along as the narration and captioning provide valuable visual-audio connections. 5 CURRENT EVENTS Students can use articles and videos to research background information about events in todays news and present a mini-report to the class. 6 TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY Use the Calendar feature to highlight historic events that happened on students birthdays. 7 MORNING WORK Minimize downtime: play a video segment for students to watch and respond to in their journals while you take attendance. 8 BUILD INTEREST Show a video segment to inspire students at the beginning of a project or lesson. 9 KWL CHARTS View video segments to help complete KWL charts and reinforce key concepts. 10 GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS Integrate images and video segments with Inspiration graphic organizer software to help students make visual connections to concepts. 11 TEACHABLE MOMENTS Show video segments to capitalize on impromptu learning opportunities. 12 ESL CAREER NIGHT Build your classroom community by showing support for your students and their families. Invite them to career night and watch segments from the Careers For the 21st Century Video Library. 13 SCAVENGER HUNT Challenge students to answer essential questions in a game. (Hint: they find the answers by viewing video segments.) 14 ENCYCLOPEDIA Collect a series of videos in My Content to use as a video library. Let students view the segments to research questions posed in class. 15 ALL ABOUT ME Students create a personal video library of five segments that highlight their interests and personality. Each week one student presents a library to the class and explains why the segments are relevant. 16 PRIMARY SOURCES Use historic images, video segments and speeches as primary source material. 17 MEDIATION Show health and guidance video segments to provide a meaningful context for discussions about respect, bullying and behavior. 18 CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT Set the course for the rest of the year. Use Discovery Education streaming videos to support your lessons on teamwork, cooperation, and conflict resolution. 19 SET THE STAGE FOR THE WEEK AHEAD At the beginning of the week, show students a brief montage of video segments and images from topics youll be covering. Use brief segments from the middle of videos to create a sense of anticipation. 20 VOCABULARY SUPPORT Challenge students to find the definition of vocabulary terms by viewing assigned video segments.

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21 CLASSROOM TRAVEL AGENTS Have students use images and clip art to add visual impact to travel brochures they write and design. 22 CROSS-CURRICULAR REINFORCEMENT Create interdisciplinary units by watching historical video segments to provide background for literature assignments. 23 HANDS-ON MATH Show math video segments to reinforce handson activities with manipulatives. 24 RAINY-DAY LESSONS Create a set of rainy day video lessons for use during indoor recess. 25 EXTRA CREDIT Students can earn extra credit by completing supplemental quizzes you create using Quiz Builder. 26 ANIMAL PLANET Have students write and record their own original narration that describes an animal video segment. 27 BOOK CLUB Use Discovery Education streamings Great Books series to add new dimension to assigned reading. 28 BEAUTIFUL BULLETIN BOARDS Use images and clip art to create dynamic bulletin board displays. 29 DISCUSSION GUIDES Supplement existing lesson plans with discussion guide materials and blackline masters. 30 HOLIDAY LESSONS Use the Holiday Fun Facts series to enhance holiday lessons and activities. 31 SIGN LANGUAGE ALPHABET LINE Print sign language clip art to create a unique alphabet line above your desk or whiteboard. 32 MAKE-UP WORK Ensure that no students miss a lesson by assigning video segments to be viewed at home. 33 PARENT NIGHT Preview upcoming school year lessons and activities by showing brief video segments to parents at back-to-school nights. 34 MINI-MOVIES Create your own custom, mini-movies by combining segments from editable videos. 35 LEARNING STATIONS Use the Assignment Builder to create online activities so students can complete specific lessons on their own or in small groups. 36 MULTIMEDIA NEWSPAPER Assign a different beat to students each week. Have them report their stories by creating multimedia presentations with publishing software, video segments and images. 37 DAILY NEWS BROADCASTS Schools with student-run closed-circuit TV stations can use brief video segments as daily factoids on the morning news broadcast. Incorporate the factoids into your morning class meeting. 38 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Use a Teaching Practices video segment as an activator at the beginning of an in-service day or staff meeting to stimulate conversation. 39 VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS Schedule a regular lunch and learn club, where students can eat lunch while they watch a video about another place in the world. 40 SCIENCE PROJECTS Have students develop hypotheses based on experiments they view in science videos. Conduct the experiments in the classroom and compare results. 41 THE GREAT DEBATE Give student teams a topic and challenge them to defend their arguments by using video segments as research evidence. 42 GET MOVING Reinforce the importance of nutrition and fitness by showing physical education video segments in the cafeteria during lunch or indoor recess. 43 TIMELINES Create a timeline of historic events by embedding video segments into Inspiration or PowerPoint.

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44 FILM FESTIVAL Have students produce their own videos by using editable video segments and adding voiceovers. Let students view their classmates creations and have the filmmakers answer questions from the audience. 45 GEOGRAPHY GAME Show video segments about various geographical locations and challenge students to guess the specific details based on their knowledge of geography. 46 FLIERS AND BACKBACK NOTES Choose from thousands of clip art images to liven up your announcements and notes home to parents. 47 MINI-UNITS Use the weekly Thematic Focus to access materials to facilitate a short lesson about a subject relevant to your curriculum. 48 GAME SHOW TEST QUIZ REVIEW Add another medium to the frequently-used quiz show format by making video segments the basis for quiz questions. 49 FREEZE FRAME Pause video segments for deeper investigation or discussion of details and concepts. 50 CULTURE CLUB Have student groups research an area of the world and create a presentation of video segments that highlight the people, economy and traditions.